Scientists and engineers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and the University of Washington (UW) have successfully completed the first scientific mission with Sentry, a newly developed robot capable...

The MCA is lead partner for the Joint Irish Bathymetric Survey Project (JIBS) and is collaborating with the MarineInstitute of Ireland as project partner. The objective of the JIBS Project...

On geological time scales, the floor of the ocean is young compared to the continents, as it is continuously recycled by internal convective forces. Oceanic lithosphere forms by ascending magma...

For several decades while coastal HF current-mapping radars were under development, they radiated rarely and only for a few weeks at a time. Now 120 commercial SeaSonde units have been...

Most sub-bottom profilers of the 60s, 70s and 80s were only designed to generate cross-sectional images of seabed sediment layering and other sub-bottom features. The data were degraded by system...

This year Quester Tangent registered the trademark 'Making Data Intelligent'. This is the kernel from which its products evolved. From modest beginnings as a contractor to the Canadian Hydrographic Service,...

News On Friday 18th June 2004 the Hydrographic Society Benelux (HSB) held a workshop entitled ‘Observation methods and reporting for Environmental and Ecological topics’ in ‘Het Havenhuis’ (The Harbour House),...

Vancouver, the largest city in western Canada, is partly located on the Fraser River Delta. The delta is under pressure from urban development and this has contributed to it being...

Cold water coral reefs, notably the stone coral Lophelia pertusa, have been found extensively in deep Arctic waters such as the Norwegian Sea. The use of multibeam echosounding, together with...

Triton Imaging celebrates at Oi the milestone of 25 years of business, and are introducing a line of products under the Triton Perspective architecture.     This architecture capitalises on...